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TIL "Minotaur" means the "bull of Minos," the creature's actual name was Asterion

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7roBx TIL that originally (up until 1804) electors could cast two votes for two different U.S. candidates for President, and the first runner-up presidential candidate became Vice President to guard against electoral gamesmanship.
WkDeo TIL there’s a 10,000 year old Stonehenge-like structure at the bottom of Lake Michigan that has a carving of a mastodon on it.
VBwQ8 TIL that despite retiring in 2021, starting this season baseball player Chris Davis will receive from the Baltimore Orioles $9.16 million a year for the next 3 years. He'll receive $3.5 million a year for the following 7 years and starting in 2033, he’ll receive $1.4 million a year until 2037.
mxkkR TIL of Aurora, an exascale computer that neuroscientists plan to use to make a map of the human brain, or connectome. The brain has more connections than the milky way has stars; mapping it would represent the single largest dataset ever collected about anything in the history of the world.
8eGNZ TIL Romanian is a romance language, along with Latin, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese.